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Wearables Panel Session

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Simon Forrest from Imagination, Ruth Hutchinson from Fitbug and Ulrich Schulze-Althoff from Medisana joined the panel session on wearables. Simon Forrest is from Imagination Technologies which believes it has lots of the elements needed …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD IFA Conference 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21| Wearable Market

QD Vision Bullish on TCL Demo

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QD Vision was at IFA on the booth of one of its customers, TCL of China. TCL was showing a 55″ prototype TV using the QD Vision technology to give >100% NTSC colour gamut …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

The Market for Wearables

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Paul Gray talked about wearable electronics. Until the first world war, watches were kept in the pocket, and wrist watches were seen as “effeminate”. However, the need for accurate time keeping during the war …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD IFA Conference 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21| Wearable Market

Panel Session Debates Quality and Containers

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Following the talks by Semenza and Hsieh, there was a panel session that was introduced by Paul Gray who asked, “Why UltraHD?” Looking at TV by region: * China – there is no clear …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD IFA Conference 2014| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Hsieh Sees State of the Supply Chain

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David Hsieh looks after the Chinese market for DisplaySearch and is also responsible for the panel supply data. Hsieh is always an interesting speaker and he started by talking about “Smart Displays”. Hsieh defined …

Tags:China| IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD IFA Conference 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

TV Makers Promote “Feature Desperation”

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The annual IFA conference on TV that is run by DisplaySearch and IFA took place in the new CityCube. A representative of IFA welcomed delegates and Paul Gray of DisplaySearch introduced the agenda. The …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| NPD IFA Conference 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Acer Kicks off IFA in Bullish Mode

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Acer was the first press conference and CEO Jason Chen started by saying that sales in Germany were double in Q2 2014 and in Austria, it was closer to 3X business. Chen said that …

Tags:Acer| IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35

IFA Says Consumers Willing to Buy

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IFA kicks off with a press event (although to try to get them all in, several are held before this one!). The format is much the same each year, so we’ve cut our report …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Visualplanet Brings New Retail Experience to Midwich

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Visualplanet will show an interactive touch sensor that can be applied to ‘any non-metallic surface’ at Midwich’s Technology Exposed on 17th and 18th September. The Touchfoil is a clear, large-format procap film. It will …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pcap (Procap)| Technology Exposed 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35

UltraHD Logo

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This has been one of my famous “busy” weeks – merging the Large Display Report and Display Monitor in the same week that IFA has started may have been a little ambitious! Never mind, …

Tags:DigitalEurope| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Resolution| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Dynamic Focus on 17″ LCD Monitors

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This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 17″ standard category. There are 10 brands featured in the advertising with NEC Displays, Iiyama and BenQ the top three. In France, Iiyama was top …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| dynamic focus| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Microsoft Close to Producing Large Touch Displays

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Microsoft’s EVP of Devices Stephen Elop has said that the company is getting close to mass production of large-screen touch displays, using technology it gained through its acquisition of Perceptive Pixel (PPI) two years …

Tags:Camera-based Touch| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Touch Displays| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21